Roughly Speaking

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you Rosalind Russell and Jack Carson in Roughly Speaking. Ladies and gentlemen, your guest producer, Mr. Irving Pichel. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Tonight's Lux Radio Theater play is briefly, Asaga of America. It is the frank, exciting biography of a real woman who, throughout two marriages and roughly two generations, experiences the true nature of American freedom, the opportunities for failure as well as success, the right to live by individuality and courage.

In our cast are two players admirably fitted for their roles, not only because of their innate talents, but because they too have experienced the ups and downs of life. While they landed very much on top, their natural sympathy and good humor have made them two of Hollywood's most popular stars, Rosalind Russell and Jack Carson, appearing in their

original screen roles in Warner Brothers, roughly speaking. In planning for tonight's show, I talked at some length with Louise Ramble-Pierson, who wrote the original story of our play. She's now starting a career as a Warner Brothers writer, proving as she says that life begins at 50.

I asked her, what if she had her life to do over again? And she assured me only one thing might make her hesitate. The dishes that she had to wash day after day, year after year for a family of seven.

If at the start of her tumultuous career she had seen all those dishes piled colossally in front of her she might have thrown in the sponge. Fortunately she, like other smart and thrifty housewives, laid in a supply of luxe flakes, and went on about each day's dishes singing.